💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧈🔬 At #Drexel University, a #food scientist explains how #butter and #margarine differ at the molecular level and why that matters for your #cookies.
Butter’s saturated #fats stack tightly for flaky baked goods, while margarine’s unsaturated fats get chemically rearranged to melt more predictably. The difference comes down to fatty acid chain structure.
#chemistry #baking #triglycerides #molecules #kitchen #cooking #science








